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The Tisch Cancer Institute is dedicated to ensuring that our breakthrough research is rapidly disseminated to benefit the diverse communities we serve. Through our Community Outreach and Engagement Program, we foster a bidirectional relationship between our researchers—who collectively cover a robust range of cancer investigation efforts—and the populations in our catchment area. By raising awareness, facilitating engagement, and aligning our research with community priorities, the Community Outreach and Engagement Program develops an enduring bridge between these critical partners.

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Our Program Liaisons

Our program liaisons are researchers at The Tisch Cancer Institute who have partnered with us in fostering the integration of our programs into the larger community.

Nihal E Mohamed, PhD

Cancer Prevention and Control

Emily J Gallagher, MD, PhD

Cancer Mechanisms

Robert M Samstein, MD, PhD

Cancer Immunology

Samir Parekh, MBBS

Cancer Clinical Investigation

Janice L Gabrilove, MD

Education

Therica Miller, MBA

Clinical Trials

Karyn A Goodman, MD, MS

Clinical Trials

Lay Research Portfolio

Breast Cancer

Doris Germain, PhD

Professor, Medicine, (Hematology and Medical Oncology), and Oncological Sciences

Hanna Y Irie, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology), and Oncological Sciences

Jian Jin, PhD

Professor, Therapeutics Discovery, Oncological Sciences, Pharmacological Sciences, Neuroscience
Director, Mount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery

E. Premkumar Reddy, PhD

Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences

Joseph A. Sparano, MD

Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology)

Cancer Epidemiology

Emily J Gallagher, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Diseases
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program

Tracy Layne, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Population Health Science and Policy, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
Faculty Member, The Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute
Director of Mentorship Development, Center for Scientific Diversity

Bian Liu, PhD

Associate Professor, Population Health Science and Policy, Environmental Medicine, and Public Health

Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD

Director, Institute for Translational Epidemiology
Associate Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute
Professor, Population Health Science and Policy, Thoracic Surgery

Susan L Teitelbaum, PhD

Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health

Juan Wisnivesky, MD, DrPH

Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine

Cancer Genomics

Zeynep H Gumus, PhD

Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Faculty Member, Precision Immunology Institute and Center for Thoracic Oncology

Ernesto Guccione, PhD

Professor, Oncological Sciences, Pharmacological Sciences

Kuan-Lin Huang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomic Science

Pei Wang, PhD

Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Liver Cancer

Celina Ang, MD

Associate Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology)

Andrea D Branch, PhD

Professor, Medicine (Liver Diseases)

Michael Buckstein, MD, PhD

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Radiation Oncology

Josep Llovet, MD

Professor, Medicine (Liver Diseases)
Director, Mount Sinai Liver Cancer Program

Amaya Lujambio Goizueta, PhD

Assistant Professor, Oncological Sciences, Medicine, Immunology and Immunotherapy

Myron E Schwartz, MD

Henry Kaufmann Professor of Surgery
Director, Liver Surgery, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute

Daniela Sia, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Liver Diseases)

Augusto Villanueva Rodriguez, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Medicine (Liver Diseases), and Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology)

Christopher D Woodrell, MD

Assistant Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Lung Cancer

Deborah B Doroshow, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Medical Oncology)

Claudia I Henschke, PhD, MD

Clinical Professor, Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology

Fred R Hirsch, MD, PhD

Joe Lowe and Louis Price Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine
Executive Director, Center for Thoracic Oncology

Thomas Marron, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology)

Charles A Powell, MD, MBA

Florette and Ernst Rosenfeld and Joseph Solomon Professor of Medicine;
Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn Mount Sinai
Medical Director, Respiratory Therapy, The Mount Sinai Hospital

Rajwanth Veluswamy, MD

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology)

Hideo Watanabe, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Multiple Myeloma

Kavita V Dharmarajan, MD

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Sundar Jagannath, MBBS

Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology)
Director, Center of Excellence for Multiple Myeloma

Alessandro Lagana, PhD

Assistant Professor, Oncological Sciences, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Samir Parekh, MBBS

Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology), and Oncological Sciences, and Immunology and Immunotherapy
Director, Translational Research in Multiple Myeloma